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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM IV. CAMPBELL, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO \VILLIAM H. THOMAS, OF SAMEPLAOE.

CEMENTING COMPOSITION.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters li'atent No, 278,681, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed April 14, 1883. (No specimens.)

To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM W. CAMP- BELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful composition of matter to be used as a cement for securing paper, leather, or other like substances to metal, of which the following is a specification.

The obj ect sought in my compound is to provide a cement which, when it is applied to a metallic surface, will not scale therefrom when dry, but will adhere closely thereto, and possess, when dry, a tough adhesive character.

My composition consists of the following essential ingredients, combined in about the proportions stated, as follows: pure water, seven and one-half gallons; good glue, ten pounds; acetic acid, eight pounds; rye-flour, twenty pounds.

The relative proportions of glue and flour may be slightly variedthat is, a little more flour and less glue, or vice versa-without departing from the spirit of my invention.

The above ingredients are compounded in the following manner: The glue is first melted in about three gallons of the water over a moderate heat. The rye-flour is then thoroughly mixed with the remaining cold water,to which mixture the acetic acid is then added, and the whole poured into the melted glue andthoroughly boiled and cooked over a hot-water bath. When the cement is to be kept for any considerable length of time, I add to the mix-' 2. The herein-described composition 0fmat ter to be used as a cement, consisting of water, glue, rye-flour, and acetic acid in the proportions specified.

\VILLIAM IV. CAMPBELL.

Witnesses:

H. 1?. H001), FRANK A. JACOB. 

